Tax reform

The size of clients’ tax refunds was up 1.4 percent this tax season, while their overall tax liability was down 24.9 percent.

The president promoted the tax overhaul on Tax Day, even as the law has swelled the deficit and failed to gain traction with voters in last year’s midterm elections.

The agency managed to open filing season on time despite the recent government shutdown and saw a big opening day.

The House passed bipartisan legislation Tuesday to overhaul some key aspects of the way the Internal Revenue Service operates, including the appeals process.

As Tax Day approaches, accountants are finally getting to the end of a season made particularly grueling by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

The new tax law and the 35-day shutdown had an impact on the agency, but it still managed to process over 59 million returns by mid-season.

House Democrats are looking to find a compromise solution to the Republican tax law’s cap on the amount of state and local levies that can be written off a federal return, a limit they say has caused their constituents to lose out on billions of dollars of deductions.

The program offers qualifying taxpayers who have capital gains income a highly flexible way to defer and eliminate a portion of the federal gain and possibly state gain.

Preparer reactions to filing season this year are … complicated.

Tax pros weigh the pros and cons of different levels of filing this year.